Thirst Quotes - Page 21

• London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Fate, Rome

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions”, p.12

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

  David Lloyd George

  Children, Work, Men

  8 Copy quote

• A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Gold, Vices

  Lord Byron (2013). “The Vision of Judgement”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.

  Taylor Swift

  Flower, Together, Worst

  Song: Clean, Album: 1989, 2014

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too... So I think you need a little bit of both.

  Ronda Rousey

  Thinking, Mma, Needs

  9 Copy quote

• Answers can suit the relative mind. In the dream we can be thirsty. But upon awaking from the dream, there's no thirst.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Yoga, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

  Horace

  Care, Riches, Consumerism

  Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose exact opposites, for the one extinguishes fire and the other adds fuel to it. So also the world and its treasures, the heart and its thirst for God are alike His creation. Now the result of the attempt to satisfy the heart with the wealth and pride and honours of this world is the same as if one tried to put out a fire with petrol, for the heart can only find ease and satisfaction in Him who created both it and the longing desire of which it is conscious.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Heart, Pride, Fire

  91 Copy quote

• If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

  Anne Lamott

  Uplifting, Ocean, Blessing

  55 Copy quote

• To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.

  Frederick Buechner

  Faith, Running, Sick

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Sep 30, 2015

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Husband, Real

  4 Copy quote

• I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

  Klaus Kinski

  Dream, Wish, Desire

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

  Hans Selye

  Fear, Self Esteem, Approval Of Others

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.

  Steven Pinker

  Sleep, Thinking, Situation

  7 Copy quote

• The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

  Francois Rabelais

  Running, Dog, Opposites

  10 Copy quote

• It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

  Louis C. K.

  Needs, Materials, Knows

  5 Copy quote

• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

  Nhat Hanh

  Doubt, Helpful, Kind

  5 Copy quote

• No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Running, Spiritual, Trying

  11 Copy quote

• I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Hate, Giving

  BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dark, Water, Evil

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Spring

  10 Copy quote

• For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.

  Rumi

  Love Is, Blood, Hundred

  5 Copy quote

• Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Glasses, Sea

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.67, Modern Library

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

  Octavio Paz

  Soul, Desire, Noble

  9 Copy quote